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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1994
Alvin C Banner, Kettering, OH (US);
Mark T Heaton, Springfield, OH (US);
Globe Products Inc., Huber Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
The operation of a flier-type armature winding machine is monitored to detect if a tang connection is missed and for interrupting the operation of the machine in such event. Differences in wire usage between those cases in which a tang connection is successfully made and those cases in which a tang connection is missed are detected and, if the differences are substantial, the operation of the armature winding machine is terminated. The monitoring is done with a shaft encoder and an add-subtract counter by which is computed the degrees of forward and reverse rotation of a guide pulley over or around which the wire is coursed. In a modification, up and down movements of a dancer pulley are monitored to provide an indication of wire usage.